Briefness Quotes

#1. Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Sri Aurobindo

#2. Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

Elizabeth Aston

#3. To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#4. You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. Karma can be an ill-timed mistress who always calls when your Mother-in-law is the first to answer the phone ... . and it would be a completely sad story had it not been so surreally hilarious.

Josh Stern

#6. Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Henry Fielding

#7. I've been so focused on living from day to day with him, I forgot to plan for the divorce." "Oh.

Leta Blake

#8. At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. As a proof of friendship, and of deference for her judgement, a great pleasure;

Jane Austen

#10. I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.

Jennifer L. Armentrout